Cross-sectional TEM Image (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Cross-sectional TEM Image

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Cross-sectional TEM image of tungsten exposed to the helium plasma. The ultra-thin film TEM sample was fabricated by "the nano-scale sculpture technique." The bright spherical shaped images correspond to nanometer scale damages called helium bubbles. The top surface of the tungsten sample remains.

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